Cron not running django command

Question

I have a django script that should be run at a specified time every day. I am trying to achieve this using crontab. The script is supposed to dump the database,

Answer 1

This is also a shot in the dark - our team has had issues running management commands through cron. We never bothered to track down why they were flaky, but after much hair-pulling we reverted to invoking the python functions directly rather than going through manage.py and things have been humming along fine ever since.